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Note: Most links current as of 7 Nov 2006 (!).

Table of contents

1 CSS 2 Color 3 Graphics 4 Layout & Navigation 5 Tags and Tag Clouds 6 Testing / Cross Browser 7 Typefaces 8 Weblog Templates

CSS

• csstidy (http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/)
  • CSS Formatter and Optimiser (http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php)
• simplebits (http://www.simplebits.com/)
• Sliding Doors of CSS (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/), Douglas Bowman
• One clean HTML markup, many layouts.. (http://tjkdesign.com/articles/one_html_markup_many_css_layouts.asp)

Color

• color links (http://nataliejost.com/color/) (nataliejost)
• Color Schemer (http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html)
• Eric Meyer's Color Blender (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/)
• Color Palette Generator (http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/), Generate a color palette based on an image

Graphics

• seashore (http://seashore.sourceforge.net/)
• Sparklines
  • tufte on sparklines (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic)
  • How to inline your sparklines/images in PHP with data: URIs (http://www.sencer.de/article/1135/how-to-inline-your-sparklinesimages-in-php-with-data-uris)
  • Sparkline PHP Graphing Library (http://sparkline.org/)

Layout & Navigation

• Where Am I? (http://alistapart.com/articles/whereami), Derek Powazek, ALA
• Smashing Magazine
  • 8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/19/8-layout-solutions-to-improve-your-designs/)
  • 50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/04/50-beautiful-and-user-friendly-navigation-menus/)
• YUI : Yahoo User Interface Library
  • Full Page Layout w/Menu Nav (3 column) (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/layout/menu_layout_source.html)
  • Layout Manager: Layout with Menu Controls (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/layout/menu_layout.html)

See also: Information Architecture Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabs

Tags and Tag Clouds

• Folksonomy links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy) (wikipedia)
• OnlyWire (http://www.onlywire.com/)
• zoomclouds (http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/)
  • Intuitive Navigation with Tag Clouds (http://performancing.com/node/2300)
• See also Small "S" Semantic Webs

Testing / Cross Browser

• browsercam (http://www.browsercam.com/)

Typefaces

• Typefaces no one gets fired for using (http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/001168.html), Cameron Moll

Weblog Templates

• WordPress: Get New Themes (http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Get_New_Themes)
• Zeldman on Blogger templtes (2004) (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0504d.shtml)